night shift

i've been lazy about blogging this week. flew back to atlanta last night and got home around 9. thought i had a few hours of work. at 4 AM i crawled into bed.

not disappointed that tonight's soccer game was canceled due to freezing rain. in good news, we've climbed from 7th place to 4th place in the premier league. can't take all the credit, but the winning streak does coincide with the arrival of moe, joe, and me on the lineup.

i normally don't blog about work (mainly b/c it would bore everyone). however, i got to do something pretty cool this week. the medstar health system in DC and baltimore hosted a bunch of healthcare people (supposed "industry leaders" as they introduced us) for an all-access tour for two days. i got to "gown up" and go inside the OR. saw several surgeries, including bariatic (aka stomach stapling). the cath lab is fricking amazing. what doctors are doing with catheters is amazing. they also showed us how much fat one big mac deposits in your arteries. Never. Again. my boss volunteered to have his heart scanned. hospitals now offer this as an a la carte service. $75 and 5 minutes of scanning. pretty cool deal.

i have to say that the tour left me in awe of surgeons, and physicians in general. everytime we entered a new department, our tour guide would introduce the doc, "this is dr. borat. she's a world-renown surgeon who developed a new procedure for intra-cranial reconstruction. she saves five lives every day."

i tried to imagine a someone giving a tour inside medassets. assuming the visitors didn't already fall asleep, the tour guide would come by my office. "and here is our business development manager. he's good at...well, he's seem to be...err, well, he can build a valuation model. and he 's good at powerpoint. oh look his whiteboard has lots of stuff of on it."

(ooh's and aah's).

impressive.